alison528

pointlessone wrote:I want it because it's by far the one of nerdiest things I've ever seen, and I don't want it because trying to explain the concept of the quantum anything would take longer than I ever want to talk to someone who would be asking me "Why does the cat have all those weird letters in it?"

D3lusional

Despite loathing the majority of Ramyb's work I briefly thought about picking this one up. Then I came to the conclusion it would actually be a pretty douchey shirt to wear since I know most people won't have a clue what it's about, just begging them to ask about it, then I get to act all smug and explain quantum mechanics and Schrodinger's cat to them. :/

mspaeth

D3lusional wrote:Despite loathing the majority of Ramyb's work I briefly thought about picking this one up. Then I came to the conclusion it would actually be a pretty douchey shirt to wear since I know most people won't have a clue what it's about, just begging them to ask about it, then I get to act all smug and explain quantum mechanics and Schrodinger's cat to them. :/

I thought about picking this up, but can't get past the ramyb factor... and other than the wave equation at the bottom, I'm not sure if the rest is gibberish

KAZVorpal

I know this is just meant to be cute, not really meaningful -- sadly, girly-cute shirts beat out actually-clever shirts way too often, bringing into doubt the big change in 1919 -- but Schroedinger's Cat refers not to any equation he wrote, but illustrates his, and Einstein's, opposition to Heisenberg's junk science.

See, Heisenberg was using unscientific methodology to justify an unsound set of shortcuts in physics, and Schroedinger was using the cat example to explain how nonsensical it was. So the actual Schroedinger's Cat equation is Heisenberg's.

The importance of that is so great, and supposed science fans so ignorant of it, that it bears mentioning, here:

Schroedinger, Einstein, Popper, and von Mises were a sort of last bastion of sound scientific method, at a time when bureaucrat-funded junk science was coming to dominate.

Their opponents, the Forces of Darkness, included Heisenberg, Bohr, and the rest of the Copenhagen frauds. While our Brave Heroes advocated Scientific Realism, a strict set of rules for keeping science sound and accurate, the Dark Side preferred the quick hype and easy results of Scientific Instrumentalism, where you play fast and loose with the facts, in order to impress bureaucratic committees into funding your work more easily.

Sadly, the Evil Empire won, which is why we've had the Scientific Consensus run down blind alleys for decades, before realizing that everything we "knew" about some given discipline was actually off-base.

elfdreamer

I know this is just meant to be cute, not really meaningful -- sadly, girly-cute shirts beat out actually-clever shirts way too often, bringing into doubt the big change in 1919 -- but Schroedinger's Cat refers not to any equation he wrote, but illustrates his, and Einstein's, opposition to Heisenberg's junk science.

See, Heisenberg was using unscientific methodology to justify an unsound set of shortcuts in physics, and Schroedinger was using the cat example to explain how nonsensical it was. So the actual Schroedinger's Cat equation is Heisenberg's.

The importance of that is so great, and supposed science fans so ignorant of it, that it bears mentioning, here:

Schroedinger, Einstein, Popper, and von Mises were a sort of last bastion of sound scientific method, at a time when bureaucrat-funded junk science was coming to dominate.

Their opponents, the Forces of Darkness, included Heisenberg, Bohr, and the rest of the Copenhagen frauds. While our Brave Heroes advocated Scientific Realism, a strict set of rules for keeping science sound and accurate, the Dark Side preferred the quick hype and easy results of Scientific Instrumentalism, where you play fast and loose with the facts, in order to impress bureaucratic committees into funding your work more easily.

Sadly, the Evil Empire won, which is why we've had the Scientific Consensus run down blind alleys for decades, before realizing that everything we "knew" about some given discipline was actually off-base.

You really think that the Copenhagen approach is related to and advocating bad science? You may not like their approach to quantum physics, and you may also disagree with them, but Instrumentalism has an advantage: you need to find a way to describe phenomena that you see. It gives us predictive methods that sometimes elude our ability to justify. Also it was not always in this direction. Take for example Bell's experiment which was meant to combat the hypotheses of the Copenhagen bunch... but when the ability to perform the experiment actually came to be, the results supported the idea of a "collapse" into a specific situation rather than the result having been established before observation.

The quantum world is a headache to think about, but it would be a huge jump to call everyone out who deals with it as a fraud.

shandarkian

I know this is just meant to be cute, not really meaningful -- sadly, girly-cute shirts beat out actually-clever shirts way too often, bringing into doubt the big change in 1919 -- but Schroedinger's Cat refers not to any equation he wrote, but illustrates his, and Einstein's, opposition to Heisenberg's junk science.

See, Heisenberg was using unscientific methodology to justify an unsound set of shortcuts in physics, and Schroedinger was using the cat example to explain how nonsensical it was. So the actual Schroedinger's Cat equation is Heisenberg's.

The importance of that is so great, and supposed science fans so ignorant of it, that it bears mentioning, here:

Schroedinger, Einstein, Popper, and von Mises were a sort of last bastion of sound scientific method, at a time when bureaucrat-funded junk science was coming to dominate.

Their opponents, the Forces of Darkness, included Heisenberg, Bohr, and the rest of the Copenhagen frauds. While our Brave Heroes advocated Scientific Realism, a strict set of rules for keeping science sound and accurate, the Dark Side preferred the quick hype and easy results of Scientific Instrumentalism, where you play fast and loose with the facts, in order to impress bureaucratic committees into funding your work more easily.

Sadly, the Evil Empire won, which is why we've had the Scientific Consensus run down blind alleys for decades, before realizing that everything we "knew" about some given discipline was actually off-base.

Some things never change, look at the global warming argument today.

It's a great idea for a shirt regardless.

If I were to assign a quote to this cat it would be: "To be, or not to be, that is the equation."

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